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End of WWII

By marissa.ricketts
  • End of WWII

    End of WWII

    Deadliest War, mostly between America & Germany.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Ended federal tolerance of racial segregation.
  • Rosa Parks Incident

    Rosa Parks Incident

    Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, this began the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Ended on December 20, 1956. African Americans refused to ride Montgomery to protest against segregation on buses.
  • Little Rock Nine Incident

    Little Rock Nine Incident

    President Eisenhower had federal troops escrt nine African Americans (The Little Rock Nine) into school & they ahd their first full day at school.
  • Sputnik launched

    Sputnik launched

    Soviet Union created the "Space Age" by launching the worlds first artificial satellite.
  • Bay pf Pigs Invasion

    Bay pf Pigs Invasion

    Young Cuban drove his army into Havana & overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, the nations American-backed president.
  • U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident

    Union of Soviet Socialists shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Ended on October 28 1962. U.S found U-2 spy plane data that the Soviet Union was building missile sites in Cuba.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    More than 200,00 Americans gathered in Washington D.C. for a politically rally.
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in jail, most famous letter ever written talking about freedom, segregation, rights, etc.